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Rainstorm kills more than 40 people in northern DPRK city

Xinhua, August 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

More than 40 people were killed and thousands displaced as a heavy rainstorm battered the northern border city of Rason of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the state-run KCNA news agency reported Wednesday.

The intense storm also destroyed 5,240 houses, 51 railway sections, 99 public service buildings, and flooded 125 hectares of farmland, said the KCNA.

Rainfall in the city reached 155 mm between 4 and 7 p.m. (0730-1030 GMT) on Saturday alone, said the report.

On Aug. 12, floods hit the South Hwanghae Province, which is called the "granary" of the DPRK, causing 10 deaths, after heavy rains and tsunami damaged hundreds of houses and swallowed thousands of hectares of arable land in the same province earlier in August. Endi